Hydrographic Survey

ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has been appointed as part of a consortia lead by Martin Wright Associates to undertake the necessary works to deliver a coastal defence scheme at Rhyl…

NCS Survey of Aberdeen, specialists in surveying and subsea positioning to both the oil and gas and renewable energy sectors, has acquired the survey operations division of Sonar Research & Development in…

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), the University of Oslo and the Russian Geological Institute (GIN) have begun collaborative mapping of undiscovered natural resources in the Barents Sea and around the Norwegian Arctic…

Equipment sales and rental specialists Seatronics of Aberdeen, which earlier this year invested £ 500,000 in IXSEA subsea navigation and positioning equipment, has concluded an agreement with BlueView Technologies of Seattle.

Hydrographic surveys, seabed asset inspections and pre and post-dredge assessments are among applications cited by Tritech International for its new Horizon multibeam echosounder, featuring extremely fast ping rates of up to 100Hz…

Plymouth UK based PC Maritime has teamed with specialist training company ECDIS Ltd of Chelmsford to provide customers with ‘ portable’ approved generic ECDIS training that can be conducted at a location…

Blom Bulgaria and Blom Aerofilms of Cheddar in the UK are to collaborate in major surveys of the Bulgarian Black Sea coastline using bathymetric laser scanning (Lidar) techniques in a project commissioned…

The International Marine Contractors Association, which now has nearly 600 members in 52 countries, has updated its definitive handbook on digital video. The new version provides an understanding of the latest digital…

SHOM, the French Navy’ s Hydrographic & Oceanographic Service in Brest, has commissioned 14 miniSVS sound velocity sensors and five miniSVT sound velocity with temperature sensors from Totnes UK based Valeport, which…

Teledyne TSS of Watford UK, which recently supplied a further eight of its Meridian gyrocompasses for installation aboard Turkish Coast Guard patrol vessels, reports delivery of a Series 440 pipe and cable…

Kongsberg Maritime in Norway has recorded its 100th order for deep water multibeam systems.

ABPmer in the UK has launched a new version of its online reference tool OMReG. This widely used reference database, originally published in 2007, provides site specific lessons across a wide range…

UK National Hydrographer Rear Admiral Ian Moncrieff will be the Keynote Speaker at a one day symposium on Hydrography & Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure organised by The Hydrographic Society UK’ s Southern…

Adventure diver Ben Burville recently trialled Tritech’ s StarFish sidescan sonar off the UK’ s North East coast. Testing its performance, he scanned the seabed at the wreck site of the cargo…